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i need help from you radio heads! i was talking to a friend about getting into SDR, and she mentioned having one of these Soma Ether devices https://somasynths.com/ether/ it seems cool to walk around and listen to RF emissions, but i can't shake the idea that this is just a normal FM radio thats missing a tuner. what am i missing? then there's this VLF receiver http://www.auroralchorus.com/wr3gde.htm which seems like the same kind of thing, but specifically set up to receive low frequencies (and no demodulator). seems like it would be more fun to monitor natural phenomena with this, vs overlapping FM broadcasts with the Soma. my question: what do radio heads think of these?
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this is a really useful link, thanks for posting it. you left off the 'e' in Guide, so i fixed it in the quote
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receiving lots of CB radio transmissions on my SDR this evening! i checked months ago and hadn't heard anything, but band conditions must be different now
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the US, it's the HF one! none of these signals have been single-sideband, all AM. also, their radios play fast and loose with the carrier frequency, and you can sometimes see 2 or 3 different carriers when these fellas talk over eachother
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Jonny 290 posted:Correctamundo. Cheap CB rigs just kind of ballpark the freq. i didn't know this was caused by sporadic-E! i thought it was just skywave propagation improving with the solar cycle. thank you for teaching me something new about radio, jonny 290
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is there any way to get a notification when sporadic e is happening?
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i think its likely to be FT8 from the theremin description. Also because it's by far the loudest and most persistent digital signal detectable on my radio. https://www.sigidwiki.com/wiki/FT8 EDIT: except maybe not, if it occurs on "unlisted" frequencies (does this mean it's outside of the amateur radio bands?)
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Big Mackson posted:the v2000 is better at 6m than my wire antenna. i guess i will be buying a regular transverter and then some switches. how about a 2nd transceiver to cover vhf+uhf -- is that too obvious? i would worry about the transverter being lossy / noisy
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has anybody ever died while operating a ham radio from the bath tub?
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Achmed Jones posted:me, im a ghost was this you? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvA_-linhg8
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Jonny 290 posted:No, because if you died in the tub you wouldn't be able to identify at the end of your contact, and that's illegal. true in the narrow sense that nobody died this particular time. though, if it happened once, who's to say it couldn't happen again? yummycheese posted:ngl, bathtub man making what looks like a 70 mile contact on a 5 watt handheld using airband AM. Is probably just really excited that the tower copied him. to me, he's doing what amateur radio operators are supposed to do: experiment with radios to learn about Science. i hope he remains unbusted
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